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Paul Fiorino | |
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President of the Golden Triangle Museum District | |
Assumed office 2008 | |
In office 1993 - 2000 | |
Member of the Colorado Board for Physical Fitness and Health | |
In office 1998–2002 | |
Appointed by | Bill Owens |
Personal details | |
Born | Paul Noel Fiorino November 22,1954 Jamaica,Queens,New York,U.S |
Political party | Unity |
Other political affiliations | Democratic Republican |
Children | 2 |
Paul Noel Fiorino (born November 22,1954) is an American ballet instructor and perennial candidate who is the national Unity Party of America's nominee for president of the United States for the 2024 presidential election. Fiorino will not appear on the Colorado presidential ballot because of the ballot-qualified,Unity Party of Colorado nominating Cornel West. [1] He previously has run for Mayor of Denver,for Governor of Colorado,and for United States Senate. [2] [3] [4] [ better source needed ]
Fiorino was born on November 22,1954 in Jamaica,Queens,New York City and moved to Denver,Colorado in 1955. [5] [6] [7] Fiorino grew up in Parker. [8] He graduated from Douglas County High School where he was Class President. [7] It was at this time that he discovered dancing as an alternative for sports and took an interest in ballet. [9] He also attended Metropolitan State University. [6] During the 1970s,Fiorino habitually smoked marijuana. [8]
In 1984,he was featured in a PBS documentary titled The Man Who Came to Dance which aired in Colorado and Wyoming. [9] [10] [11] Governor Bill Owens appointed him to the Colorado Board for Physical Fitness and Health in 1998,where he served until 2002. [7] Fiorino served several state party positions,including as the Business Chair of the Colorado Republican Party from 2002 until 2004 and as a 2008 Delegate in the Colorado Democratic Party. [7] Fiorino is also a singer-songwriter who released a gospel album,Guitar and Voice,in 2012 which was inspired by his experience with Guillain-Barre syndrome. [9] According to Fiorino,he was a coach in the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. [12] [ better source needed ]
Fiorino first ran for office in 2006 where he attempted to become an independent candidate for Governor of Colorado alongside Heather Anne McKibben. He attempted to email media outlets, complaining about the lack of reporting given to minor candidates, he was not invited to a gubernatorial debate. [13] [14] Fiorino later said that he was first called to run for office because of budget cuts to arts in public schools. [3] On election day, Fiorino received less than 1%, however, he was the first independent candidate to ever appear on a Colorado gubernatorial ballot. [5] [15]
The Unity Party of Colorado nominated Fiorino alongside Cynthia Munhos de Aquino Sirianni for Governor of Colorado in 2022. [16] [17] He was endorsed by the Colorado Music and Business Organization and fellow perennial candidate Gary Swing, who won 5% in the 2016 United States Senate election in Arizona. [18] [19] [ better source needed ]
Fiorino was nominated by the Unity Party of America over Google Meet on April 6, 2024. The party is broadly centrist and supports a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution, the elimination of the federal income tax, and Congressional term limits. [20] However, the ballot-qualifies Unity Party of Colorado rejected Fiorino as their nominee, choosing to nominate Socialist Cornel West by a margin of 95%-5% at their nominating convention. [1]
Fiorino has been a candidate for Mayor of Denver and Denver City Council, most recently in 2023 as a write-in candidate. [3] He has also run in every Colorado gubernatorial election since 2006. [3] In 2014, Fiorino was invited to a debate that included the Democratic and Republican nominees. [21]
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